[ojkelly]

Lambda’s success was never about bursty workloads, it’s the elastic event driven compute model it enables.

Yes only paying for the compute you actually use is great, but so is having basically limitless compute power (your wallet willing) without the ops overhead and system maintenance.

Cold starts have been a problem fire a while, and while there many be a better way than this long term, ultimately to some degree the solution will always be keeping a function warm. And that’s ultimately compute, and aws is not likely to give that away.